May 19 marks the 22nd anniversary of one of the most successful singles of all time – Brandy & Monica‘s iconic duet, ‘The Boy Is Mine.’
For commemoration of that occasion and other reasons (see: purported rivalry, occupying similar spaces in music history, etc.), the divas’ longtime fans are calling for them to participate in the ‘VERZUZ’ battle craze to highlight gems from their respectively prized discographies.
As both ladies are hot on the promo trail for their most recent ventures (see: Bran’s new single ‘Baby Mama,’ Mo’s VH1 reality series ‘Friends & Family Hustle’), they’ve both been quizzed on their interest in engaging on the platform.
Look inside to see their responses:
Taking to Atlanta’s ‘V-103’ radio station recently, Mo said:
“The reality is, I think ‘Boy Is Mine’ is such a phenomenal record because we’re polar opposites. And I think that’s dope,” Monica told Atlanta’s V-103. “[The battle] would have to be a celebratory form of it. It would just have to be. I just don’t see it any other way.”
Elaborating on previous battles she enjoyed, Mo stated:
“[Teddy Riley & Babyface] knew each other’s records, they gave each other love the whole time and I think that’s what made it so dope. [But], people have put [Monica & Brandy] against each other for twenty-something years,” she continued. “I’ve been trying to tell people for about 25 years you can like both! [If] you’re going to turn this into 1998 all over again, I have no interest in that.”
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Not only did Brandy exclusively tell That Grape Juice she was open to the concept (as we reported here), she reiterated her stance when she took to our friends at Essence.
Start at 12:35:
‘I don’t really see myself doing that. I’m open to it, but I haven’t really thought about it,” said Brandy.
As both ladies expressed openness (yet hesitation) to the question, there still may be a chance we’ll see it. While we await official news on that, the first female competition on the platform will come courtesy of Neo-Soul Queens Erykah Badu and Jill Scott.
Click here to read more on that.
It’s honestly a stupid idea. Good music is good music, no artist has a true versus except themselves. PERIOD
Agreed. These women don’t need it. Resurrect some you ain’t haters from in a minute
Monica’s hits r local
Monica doesn’t want this embarrassment. Brandy has hits for days that FAR exceed anything from Mo. I mean, It’s not hard to beat “so gone” 🙄🙄🤣
U SOUND STUPID
THE FIRST NIGHT #1 HOT 100
ANGEL OF MINE #1 HOT 100
DONT TAKE IT PERSONAL #2 HOT 100 #1 R&B
FOR YOU I WILL #4 HOT 100
LIKE THIS AND LIKE THAT
BEFORE YOU WALK OUT MY LIFE, BOTH TOP 10 HOT 100, #1 R&B
SO GONE TOP 10 HOT 100 #1 R&B
MONICA IS THE ONLY ARTIST TO TOP THE R&B SONGS CHART IN THE 90s 2000s & 2010s. SHE ALSO HAS MORE #1 ALBUMS THAN BRANDY SHE WAS ALSO THE LAST ONE OF THEM TO GO GOLD OR PLATINUM WHICH BRANDY HASNT DONE SINCE 2004.
BRANDY DIDNT SCORE ANY HITS PAST FULL MOON. BRANDY WOULD BE THE ONE EMBARRASSED ONCE SHE PLAYS PUT IT DOWN 😂😂😂. THIS IS WHY SHE HATES MONICA SO MUCH NOW.
BABY MAMA IS ALSO TERRIBLE BRANDY KNEW BETTER
Charts mean nothing. Old town road is the longest running #1 song In the US and that song sucks. It’s not that hard for anyone to beat Monica in this. Sorry. And angel of mine was a COVER.
Come through with the facts!!!!
#teamMONICA
GIRL UR A SPECIAL NEEDS CASE. THE BATTLES ON VERZUZ ARE ABOUT HITS!!! IT IS LITERALLY HIT FOR HIT. NOW UR JUST TALKIN. N WHO CARES IF IT WAS A COVER. THE UK VERSION DIDNT DO WHAT THE US VERSION DID. BRANDY COULD HAVE A MILLION SONGS BUT SHE DOESNT HAVE MORE HITS THAN MONICA N THATS ON PERIOD. SO SHE WOULD BE VERY HARD TO BEAT SINCE SHES BEEN STACKING HIT SINGLES SINCE 14. OLD TOWN IS ONE BIG HIT. MONICA HAS SEVERAL. NOBODY CARES IF U DONT LIKE THE SONGS. THE HITS ARE THERE. SO IN THESE BATTLES CHARTS MEAN EVERYTHING OR HAVE U NOT BEEN WATCHING. THATS THE WHOLE PREMISE.
YASSSSS RECEIPTS MONICA IS HEAVY IN THE HITS DEPARTMENT
Susan says charts don’t matter I forgot it only matters when it’s Bey or Nicki
Stfu. It’s airheads like you, that keep a fake fued going. Clearly they are 2 different unpressed women.
LOL BUT UR HERE….SAYIN NOTHIN
Battles between producers I can understand because they created the music, but I think it would be dumb to start having artist battles. I still have trouble understanding why some people act like they can only have one favorite, because like Monica said in this interview and Instagram Live the other night, it’s okay to like two different artists who are close in age or whatever. Let’s just celebrate good music.
THIS.
Then ask Monica why she punched brandy in the face.
Because Brandy was known to talk s#it. She even spoke Ill of Aaliyah, and was slick with Britney.
@JES EXACTLY N MONICA WAS THE ONE TO CALL U OUT ON IT. BRANDY IS THE SAME WAY SHE WAS BACK THEN.
They’re both great artist.I think the only reason people wanna see it is because they’ve been comparing them for so many years now. It’s crazy. They’re both incredible. Just let it be.
Definitely ready for both albums!
Both albums? Monica will never ever release an album. Wasn’t she on GMA performing commitment over 2 years ago? Where’s the album? Oh, that’s right, she’s severely in debt to RCA and cannot afford to independently fund this new album and is on the verge of filing bankruptcy. Hopefully she keeps a storyline so she can stay on the family hustle…nasty rabbit toothed b****
🤣😭You are seething up and down this post. Simmer down cabróna 🤣
You mean Monica’s number 1 hit commitment…don’t leave that out sweets
GIRL U UP N DOWN THIS POST TRYNA MAKE UP LIES ON MONICA. COMMITMENT CAME OUT IN 2019, UR A LIAR. HER CONTRACT WITH RCA WAS UP. EVEN WHEN SHE DIDNT GO GOLD OR PLATINUM CLIVE WAS NEVA DROPPING MO. COMMITMENT HIT #1 IN R&B. LOL N WHO IS BANKRUPT. U MEAN BRANDY THE ONE WHO LIED ABOUT BEIN A VIRGIN BEIN MARRIED GOT PREGNANT BY WANYA MORRIS OR THE ONE WHO CAUSED THAT LADY TO LOSE HER LIFE IN THAT CAR. GIRL GONE. MONICA IS THE ONE STILL ACTIVELY N SUCCESSFULLY TOURING.
Brandy is shady and always throwing shots. I do no care for her personality. Monica seems WAY more mature.
do not care**
Then why’d Monica punch brandy? Monica is gutter trash and insecure. Rabbit toothed b****
😂😂 You’re seething, all while stanning for Brandy’s alien face, baby teeth, d*ck sucking behind the set of Moesha (Ask Fredro Star who said Brandy had a weak head game) a** 🤣🤣😭😭😭
Now simmer down.
LOL YET BRANDY IS THE ONE WHO WAS STILL BRINGING MONICA UP DECADES LATER WHILE MONICA WAS ACTUALLY LEGALLY MARRIED WIT HER FAMILY N HER ACTIVE CAREER UNLIKE BRANDY WHO DROPS ALBUMS EVERY FULL MOON OF EVERY 10th YEAR 😂😂😂😂😂😂
BRANDY IS ALSO JEALOUS OF BEYONCE
All I see is pure TALENT in that picture. Question: Why does Monica’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 song The First Night always sound like the first time you ever heard it?
I should make a move but I won’t
And then you probably thinkin’ something is wrong
Knowing if I do that it won’t be right
I wanna get down, but not the first night
Like for real. 🙂
TIMELESSNESS
the producers should be battling not them. idk about brandy but monica didn’t write or produce any of her hits.
Brandy had a hand in writing The Boy is Mine fyi..
And What About Us, He Is, Beggin’ & Pleadin’, Freedom Rings & other album tracks.
BEGGIN & PLEADIN WASNT A HIT NOR WAS FREEDOM RINGS. LASHAWN N RODNEY WROTE THE MAJORITY OF TBIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv6RHcI_rW8
do they have 20 hits a piece
Monica does… brandy sold more album but Muncie had the hotter singles… I don’t think this a great idea Because this will cause fans like that crazy Susan lady on here to rehash a beef that truly was never there.
SUSAN IS TRULY MENTAL. POOR THING. MONICA HAS MORE HITS N TRUTHFULLY BRANDYS SALES ARE INFLATED JUST LIKE THAT VOCAL BIBLE TITLE. BRANDY HAD ONE HUGE ALBUM N HER SALES HAVE DECLINED SINCE. SHE HASNT GONE GONE GOLD OR PLATINUM SINCE 2004. MONICA HAS.
Good morning. Could you least Monica’s 20 songs, or at least 10?
*list* not least
Do you history check before speaking
YOLANDA I LISTED PLENTY OF THEM ABOVE
I counted 7. I’m not trying to challenge you because I love Monica but Swizz says that the artists must submit 20 hits and I don’t think neither one of them have 20 hits. Also, I hope Verzuz doesn’t stray into something else. I thought it was for songwriting or producing. Now, it’s all about hits? Lil Kim, Missy, and Nicki can do that easily.
No fighting ladies…. even they both from da hood…..
This thing started off as a good cultural movement celebrating iconic black musicians, producers etc…. now I can see it veering off into an off putting direction. 🥴
Just look at the majority of comments on this article to understand why they won’t ever do it. Toxicity at its most off-putting. Listing an artist’s stats doesn’t prove their superiority, it proves your insecurity and neither Brandy or Monica want any part of it which they’ve been saying for literal decades.
EXCEPT THE BATTLE IS ABOUT STATS. VERZUZ IS LITERALLY A HIT FOR HIT BATTLE 😂
It’s quality of song vs quality of song,not Billboard position vs Billboard because most artists wouldn’t even be able to compete.
NO ITS LITERALLY HIT VS HIT. HIT FOR HIT HAS BEEN THE BASIS OF THE ENTIRE VERZUZ BATTLES FOR THE ENTIRETY NOW. SINGLES ONLY. HIT SINGLES.
It really isn’t. I watched the Babyface vs Teddy Riley battle. It’s catalog vs catalog. If you ain’t top 40 on Billboard (which this site insists is the measure of success) then Guy, After 7 and even Foxy Brown ain’t it. They are battling the quality of the music. And besides that and to the point, Monica and Brandy ain’t here for toxic fandom that thinks chart positions equate quality.
AGAIN YOU HAVE IT WRONG. THE BATTLE WAS HIT FOR HIT. ALL THOSE SONGS THEY PLAYED WERE VERY BIG HITS, CROSSOVER HITS AT THAT. HIT SINGLES. SINGLES. SINGLES. AGAIN, SINGLES.
ALL THE SONGS THEY PLAYED HAD CHART IMPACT OR DID U MISS WHEN SWIZZ N TIM BOTH SAID ITS HIT FOR HIT. WHICH IS WHAT BABYFACE N TEDDY PLAYED.
ALL THOSE RECORDS THEY PLAYED WERE TOP 40. CLEARLY UR A 2000s BABY OR DIDNT LISTEN TO THE RADIO.
It’s about Songs Also they can do It from a list of songs they both release ..
Monica has 25+
Brandy has 22+
Monica a shelved album that still released a ok successful song (All eyes on Me)
They’re compared so often it would be pointless
Versus is supposed to remind younger people all the hits these people produced
Brandy and Monica is still an argument being held on stan twitter
I would love that in a perfect world but in the real one no ma’am! Monica doesn’t need all that salt and bitterness on her plate just to promote an album
Brandy worldwide famous artist not lyke monika
True, because of Cinderella and Whitney (Fairy Godmother), Moesha, I Wanna Be Down Remix, and being on the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack.
And never say never!!! Monika stole eternal’s angel of mine song
YET MONICA TOURS MORE THAN BRANDY DOES. MONICA WAS THE LAST ONE TO HAVE A HOT 100 HIT AS WELL AS A CERTIFIED ALBUM.
Monica will want to slap brandy again! Brandy’s first two albums hand down are classics. All most ever album brandy released back then was a whole body of work. I use to find myself with Monica album skipping songs. We already know who the winner will be.
MONICA SOLD MORE. HAS MORE HITS. BRANDY FIZZLED OUT AROUND 2004
never say never outsold monicas entire discography 🤨
in which world she outsold brandy?
NEVER SAY NEVER IS ONE ALBUM THAT SOLD WELL. NAME ANOTHER BRANDY ALBUM THAT DID BETTER. BRANDY WAS LAST RIAA CERTIFIED IN 2004. MAKE THAT MAKE SENSE.
Brandy has 2 multi-platinum (Brandy, Never Say Never), one platinum (Full Moon) and one gold (Afrodisac) albums.
Monica has one multi-platinum album (The Boy Is Mine), two platinum albums (Miss Thang and After The Storm) and one gold (Still Standing) albums.
This thread is the reason they don’t want to do the versus!!! 😂😂😂
Glory by Britney Spears is currently rising on the US iTunes Charts (at FULL price). Justice for Glory! Currently #56 (wasn’t in the top 200 an hour ago)!
Glory is worst bs albüm. Sheis not r& b singer
What? Lol. Britney Jean is her worst album. Glory isn’t an r&b album 😂 clearly you haven’t heard it. Just because make me and slumber party had urban flare, doesn’t mean it’s an r&b album. Britney knows her audience…unlike Justin Bieber who actually released an r&b album that underperformed
DONT TAKE IT PERSONAL
LIKE THIS AND LIKE THAT
WHY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
BEFORE YOU WALK OUT MY LIFE
FOR YOU I WILL
THE FIRST NIGHT
ANGEL OF MINE
THE BOY IS MINE
SO GONE
U SHOULDVE KNOWN BETTER
ALL EYEZ ON ME
AINT NOBODY
JUST ANOTHER GIRL
EVERYTHING TO ME
LOVE ALL OVER ME
KNOCK KNOCK
TRUST
EVERYTIME THA BEAT DROP
MOST RECENTLY COMMITMENT WENT #1. I COUNT 20 SONGS MONICA COULD EASILY WIN WITH. SEVERAL OF WHICH WENT #1.
I love both ladies equally and to this day “The Boy Is Mine” is still my favorite song from Brandy’s “Never Say Never” album.
Monica has more hits. Period. But both ladies are phenomenal. It’s something about Monica’s songs that just have that hype when they come on, even if it’s a ballad.
EXACTLY. THANK U. THE BATTLE IS ABOUT HITS. MONICA HAS MORE. NOT TO MENTION SHE JUST RECENTLY WENT #1. SHE WAS THE LAST TO SCORE ANY HITS IN RECENT TIME OR GO GOLD OR PLATINUM. BRANDY STARTED DROPPING IN SALES AFTER NEVER SAY NEVER.
Truthfully Brandy killed her career with the marriage sham. After that she was no longer America’s good girl, and her album sales, and image took a major hit, and she has never really recovered. Hopefully she can garner some great attention, and success with this new album. On another note The Brandy vs. Monica thing of the 90’s is dead both women have grown, and they both are intel different spaces in their lives. It is ok to appreciate, and like them both.
SONJA NORWOOD REALLY DID A NUMBER ON BOTH HER KIDS TBH.
THOSE CAREERS JUST PLUMMETED.